IT was the strangest thing: a statement that challenged the conventional wisdom in a way that I just didn’t see coming.
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No extra day off for Liberation Day
ISLANDERS will not get an extra day off to make up for Liberation Day falling on a Sunday this year.
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Who’s top of the expenses charts?
THE minister in charge of saving money has topped the expenses chart for 2009. Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf claimed £5,762 of taxpayers’ money in travel and accommodation expenses last year, over £2,000 more than any of his colleagues. Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur came in second with £3,757 for travel and accommodation, while Assistant Education […]
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Message from the UK: Go ahead, sign a couple of treaties. But don’t count on us if it all goes belly-up
Blackadder: It is the way of the world Baldrick – the abused always kick downwards. I’m annoyed, and so I kick the cat, the cat pounces on the mouse, and finally the mouse…bites you on the behind.
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Moving return visit to Bad Wurzach
FREEDOM and reconciliation were the themes of a special service in the German town of Bad Wurzach where Islanders were interned during the Second World War.
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Ministers’ vision triumphant
ALTHOUGH the Business Plan debate is not yet over, it is already clear that the Council of Ministers’ vision of the course that the Island should steer is displacing other views of the way forward.
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States spending to be slashed
UNPRECEDENTED spending cuts were signalled today as ministers announced ambitious plans to cut States spending by £50 million a year from 2012.
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Elizabeth, Marie, Jean and Philippe come out to play
ALTHOUGH the principal aim of most family historians is to trace their ancestry back as far as is possible with any degree of certainty, a secondary and very important objective is to learn as much as possible about one’s ancestors and the lives they lived.
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A Week in Politics
SEE if you can spot the common theme with the five recent defeats that the Council of Ministers have had in the States: the Millennium Town Park, a financial ombudsman, a rental deposit protection scheme, the Bellozanne sewage treatment works, and cleaning up the rubbish that goes into the La Collette incinerator.
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Once again, we have been betrayed
From Ray McCredie. ONCE again the residents of St Helier have been betrayed. The proposal to build houses around the perimeter of the area promised for a Town Park is an outrage. Greedy developers and Hopkins, the UK architects, will be the only ones to benefit, and why is the main architect from the UK? […]
